How to open spss data files in Excel?

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How to open spss data files in Excel?

I converted sav to csv online: http://pspp.benpfaff.org/

(Not exactly an answer for you, since do you want avoid opening the files, but maybe this helps others).

I have been using the open source GNU PSPP package to convert the sav tile to csv. You can download the Windows version at least from SourceForge [1]. Once you have the software, you can convert sav file to csv with following command line:

pspp-convert <input.sav> <output.csv>

[1] http://sourceforge.net/projects/pspp4windows/files/?source=navbar

How to open spss data files in Excel?

In order to download that driver you must have a license to SPSS. For those who do not, there is an open source tool that is very much like SPSS and will allow you to import SAV files and export them to CSV.

Heres the software

And here are the steps to export the data.

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